A Course of History: Monash Country Club 1931-2001History of a prominent Sydney golf club, founded in 1931 by Jews in response to the discrimination they experienced in many other golf clubs. |
Contents
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NOMADS AND NIBLICKS | 36 |
HIGH IN THE HILLS | 62 |
CONFIRMATION | 101 |
CHAMPIONSHIP QUALITY | 126 |
APPROACHING SEVENTY | 165 |
A CHANGING MEMBERSHIP | 195 |
SOUL OF THE CLUB | 264 |
NOTES | 275 |
GLOSSARY | 278 |
OFFICE HOLDERS | 284 |
CLUB CHAMPIONS AND TROPHY WINNERS | 295 |
JEWISH CHAMPIONSHIPS | 321 |
COURSE RECORDS | 323 |
INDEX | 325 |
Common terms and phrases
Adelstein Alan Amateur antisemitism Australian ball Barbara Phillips Barry Chirlian Basser became Bill Ritchie Bonnie Doon Brian Davis captain Catts cent championship Clerc Club champion Club's clubhouse Cohen Colin Tatz committee competition course David Berman Dora Deane Elanora Enid Berns Eric Rheuben event fairway fees Gino Osmo Gladys Farrell green handicap Henry Hirschhorn Hyman Eizenberg Hyman Penn Hymie Ilia Vilensky Japanese Jeremy Jewish Jewish golfers Jews Jimmy Boots John Little Johnston junior Kevin Crowe left to right Maurice Richmond Max Krilich membership METRES Monash Country Club Monash Golf Club Monash members Moynie Levy Nick Fry pennant team Peter Headland Peter Medworth Phil Shilkin Phil Wood players playing members president professional Pymble Ros Fischl Ross Bockman Roy Vandersluis Royal Sydney Rupert Michaelis score social South Wales sport Steigrad Sydney Terry Hill Tom Winter Trophy Vic Ferguson women
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Page 52 - Australia looks to America, free of any pangs as to our traditional links or kinship with the United Kingdom.
Page 21 - The very analysis of the nature of the Jewish body, in the broader culture or within the culture of medicine, has always been linked to establishing the difference
Page 53 - it will no doubt be appreciated also that, as we have no racial problem, we are not desirous of importing one
Page 53 - racial problem, we are not desirous of importing one by encouraging any scheme of largescale foreign migration.
Page 22 - Germans are not discriminating against Jews in their Olympic tryouts. The Jews are eliminated because they are not good enough as athletes. Why, there are not a dozen Jews in the world of Olympic calibre.
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Page 5 - Now golf is a game in which each player has a small hard ball of his own, which he strikes with the intention of putting it into a hole. Abstractly, he wishes to do this with as few blows as possible, concretely, in fewer than his opponent.
Page 24 - trams. Modulate your voices. Do not make yourself conspicuous anywhere by walking with a group of persons, all of whom are loudly speaking
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